Recipe for Honey Frosting (pareve)

Honey cake season is just around the corner. For those who are not great fans of honey cake, this is my strategy to be "yotzei" honey cake, without having to bake tons of cloyingly sweet cakes. (This way you can bake your cakes and eat them, too, rather than bake cakes and have them sit. Ugh. Sorry.)

This way, you can bake your favorite cakes, smear a bit of this yummy frosting on top, and declare them "honey cakes" without fear of contradiction.

This recipe makes 2-3 cups of pareve honey frosting, which can be drizzled on top of carrot cakes, spice cakes, quick breads, or any not-too-sweet cake. It can also be served as a "cake condiment" and smeared like a flavored butter onto the cake surface by each individual.

We like this as a pareve substitute for cream cheese frosting on a carrot cake.

Because this frosting is thin and pourable (which suits it well, as a little goes a long way) it looks, tastes, and performs best when the whole cake (or at least the frosting) is served chilled.

A double recipe of 5 cups of this frosting, chilling in the refrigerator, will transform a few weeks' worth of holiday cakes into "honey cakes", a few ladle-fulls at a time!


Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup honey
  
• 1 stick (1/2 cup = 4 oz.) unsalted margarine
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/4 cup soy milk
  
• 1 lb. confection sugar (no need to sift if measuring by weight. This is one of the reasons I like to double this recipe: I can just dump in a whole 2lb. bag of the confection sugar without measuring.)
  
• 1/4 cup brewed coffee, warm
  

Instructions:

1. Cream the margarine.
   
2. Mix the soy milk and the honey with the margarine, adding the liquids slowly in small amounts, scraping the sides of the bowl and mixing well between each addition.
3. Add the salt and the confection sugar and beat well.
4. Stir in the brewed coffee.
5. Chill and use sparingly. It will run over the sides of the cake if served at room temperature, so either serve immediately, or keep chilled.

Enjoy!

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